The result was merge to List of hybrid creatures in mythology. J04n(talk page) 12:59, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
I found far more sources describing "goat people" as "people who raise goats" than "mythological goat/humans". Does not seem to be a common enough motif to deserve a list to itself, given that half the list is less "goat person" and more anthropomorphic goat or demon. Does not give evidence that this was a "class of mythological beings". ZXCVBNM (TALK) 06:08, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
*Keep there seems to be some merit to this article, and source are available to improve it. Prince of Thieves (talk) 09:17, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
The book notes:
According to https://www.blueangelonline.com/about_us.html,Pan, the half-man/half-Goat fertility God of Greek mythology (sometimes depicted with an erect penis), personifies the potency of the Goat's fecundity, as do creatures of equally fabulous ilk, satyrs, fawns and pookas. When negatively directing their potential, Goat people are typically followers who inconsequentially indulge themselves in shameless activity. They may drink to excess, for example, partake in illicit drugs, boast about their sexual conquests and forcefully exact their sexual wants and desires. They play harmful practical jokes, amuse themselves with cruel taunts and activities that frighten others (reckless driving, for example) and often adopt irrational or unreasonable attitudes regarding the environment and the world as a whole. When demonstrating their positive traits, however, Goat people are gentle and loving. They have an inherent love of animals, plants, the waterways, mountains and nature. They are demonstrative, funny, and sensitive. Goat people are often described as being the 'Salt of the Earth', grounded and sound.
I consider this edited book from an independent publisher to be a reliable source.Blue Angel Publishing started as a specialist bookstore and art gallery in 1997 and in 2001 evolved into a publishing company. The first Blue Angel Publishing publication was Toni Carmine Salerno's Universal Love Oracle.
We are now a small boutique and independent publishing house with a strong network of distribution outlets around the globe and many of our publications are now published in various languages, including Japanese, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Slovenian, Polish, Czech, Portugese, Chinese, Danish, Russian and Norwegian.
The book notes:
According to the book's title page, the book was first published in 1977 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was published a second time in 2009 by Llewellyn Worldwide.Goat people
Besides various elves who occasionally take goat form or who have goatlike qualities, there is an entire group who have assumed the characteristics of both men and goats. The most famous of these are the Panes, Satyrs, and Sileni of classical Greece. These were early wood and field spirits who were later changed into the classical half-gods with which we are familiar. The Sileni, or Albanian Goat People, were reduced to Silenus, the drunken old goat-man who followed Dionysos. The Satyrs, once known only in Argos, were suddenly recognized all over Greece as the "gentle gods." The wood and herd Panes were telescoped into "the great god Pan," the pipe-playing nymph ravager.In Italy, the Goat People were called Fauni and Silvani, The Fauni, once field spirits who gave nightmares to animals, were honored at state festivals and were changed into the god Faunus. The Silvani, elves who guarded the herds, houses, and land boundaries of the ancient Romans, became the minor god Silvanus.
[An "Identification" subsection that discusses what Goat People look like.]
Cunard (talk) 07:34, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
has a master’s degree in acupuncture and runs her own healing practice: are you sure her book is a reliable source? As I said in the swamp monster AFD, mythology and folklore are topics of serious academic study, and we shouldn't be relying onfringe popular sources. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:06, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
The New York Times said of the book, "Rationalists, materialists, be forewarned: the ancient forces governing earthly incident and momentum lie neither in our heads nor our economics, but, rather, in the revelations from A Field Guide to the Little People." I don't consider this book, which was first published by mainstream publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1977, to be a fringe source based on the author's background.
Cunard (talk) 08:50, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
My interpretations at the time believed source provided showed it focused on the mythological being.How on earth did the random grab-bag of fringe sources demonstrate that? How could they?
You made a strong argument which was then countered by Cunard.Where? Cunard's last reply was at 08:50, 13 March 2018 (UTC), I refuted them at 10:44, 13 March 2018 (UTC), and they never got back to it.
Further analysis suggests the discussion did not have a consensus, and was then updated to be closed as such."further analysis"? It was plain for everyone to see, and your close as "keep" was a super-vote and was highly inappropriate. Please stop denying this or a serious discussion will need to be had about your continued permission to perform non-admin closures of AFDs.
I've since found multiple scholarly sources which I listed below as well as additional book sources.Umm ... no, you didn't. You cited two sources, neither of them scholarly, and neither apparently using the phrase "goat people", either at all or as a generic term for the purported topic of this article.
These sources have yet to be countered.Please read my comments before responding to them. I clearly stated it above: Anyway, your sources have similar problems: if "goat woman" is a common synonym for glaistig, then that title should redirect to that article, not this one.
The book notes:
Hermes was mightily pleased. He tenderly lifted the goat-child and wrapped it in the softest hides of a mountain hare. Holding the baby to his chest, he set out for Olympus, to introduce his new son to the other gods. All of them were abolutely delighted, especially Dionysus. Since all were made happy by the infant, that is what they called him: "All" or, in Greek, Pan.
Any human being unlucky enough to be alone in those wild places might chrink in fear hearing this powerful uncanny sound, an uncomfortable feeling that people began to call "panic", after the goat-god who caused it.
The book notes:
Goat woman
The Glaistig water fairies of Scotland are half woman, half goat. Though they can be dangerous, they enjoy looking after human farmers' cattle, as well as children and old folk.